With apologies to both Dr. Mayer, my art history teacher, and the great Caspar David Friedrich.
Bush's press conference today offered this ditty: "I'm not an economist, but I do believe we're growing," he said. "I'm an optimist. I believe there's a lot of positive things for the economy."
He's proclaimed his sunny optimism at various junctures in the past. Just how a happy disposition has any effect on reality I don't know, but I'm reminded of the time years ago when a young man tried to convince me that solipsism was a legitimate metaphysical idea. When I offered to bust him in the head by way of rebuttal, he grew very quiet.
And later that night, when the lights went out of sight, came the wreck of the"Muriccan economy.
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